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John Birdsall likes things that taste good. He once cooked for a living, before writing about people who cook for a living. He was editor of SFoodie, the food blog of SF Weekly, has written for San Francisco magazine, CHOW.com, and the San Francisco Chronicle, and tweets @John_Birdsall. He lives in Oakland... more

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News, Feature, Sep 14, 2011
Food Trucks Prohibited

While cities around the country are embracing mobile food vendors, Oakland still treats most of them as scofflaws.
- by John Birdsall
- Tags: Feature, Mobile vending ordinance, Elizabeth August, Oakland Mobile Food Group, food vendor, Ed Manasse, food trucks, Matt Cohen, street-food vendor, Off the Grid, Gail Lillian, Berkeley's North Shattuck Merchant's Association, Gourmet Ghetto, Cheeseboard, Saul's Deli, Oakland Restaurant Association, Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, Paul Junge, Desley Brooks, Larry Reid, loncheras, Rebecca Kaplan, Ada Chan, Bites Off Broadway, Emilia Otero, Ignacio De La Fuente, Pilot Program, Shelly Garza, Rising Sun Entrepreneurs, La Cocina, Primitivo Guzman, El Zamorano, Art Murmur, Fist of Flour, James Whitehead, Sacred Wheel, Jena Davidson Hood, Corey Stowe, Guerrilla Grub, Karen Hester

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News, Feature, Feb 4, 2009
La Vida Taco

A month-long, taco-eating odyssey through Oakland's Fruitvale district.
- by John Birdsall
- Tags: Feature, Taco trucks, Oakland, International Boulevard, Foothill Boulevard, Tacos

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News, Aug 29, 2007
The Pickle Problem

Stinky kimchi warrants its own fridge in some Korean households.
- by John Birdsall
- Tags: News, kimchi, kimchi refrigerators, kimchi-neng-jang-go, Koreana Plaza, Kitchen Plus, Dimchae

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News, Aug 15, 2007
City Farm, Country Farm

People's Grocery gets a plot in the country, and some high-end clientele.
- by John Birdsall
- Tags: News, People's Grocery, Sunol Water Temple Agricultural Park, West Oakland, food security, Brahm Ahmadi, Jason Uribe, Eccolo, Samin Nosrat

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News, Feature, Aug 8, 2007
Back to Square One

Jack London Square's future lies in an ambitious-but-risky proposal whose failure could turn once-public waterfront into office space.
- by John Birdsall and Robert Gammon
- Tags: Feature, Jack London Square, Jim Falaschi, Hal Ellis Jr., Renato Sardo, Harvest Hall, Jack London Square Partners, Port of Oakland, Slow Food, Chandru Gurnani, Chow, Don Perata, LCOR-WDG Ventures, California Canoe & Kayak, Waterfront Plaza Hotel, Jack's Bistro, San Francisco Ferry Building Marketplace, Omar Benjamin, Business

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News, Jun 13, 2007
Summer Strip Club

Point-of-purchase cornhuskers irk the cobwatchers.
- by John Birdsall
- Tags: News, corn, husk stripping, Berkeley Bowl Marketplace, Betty Fussell, Full Belly Farm, Judith Redmond, earworms

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News, Feature, Feb 21, 2007
Really Slow Food

Alison Negrin traded in a glamorous chef career to reform abysmal hospital chow. Good luck with that.
- by John Birdsall
- Tags: Feature, Da Lian, Health

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News, Feature, Jan 3, 2007
Hype Man for the Arts

Jerry Brown talked about the arts, and then the arts flourished. Does that mean he deserves the credit?
- by John Birdsall, David Downs, and Rachel Swan
- Tags: Feature, Jerry Brown, Politics

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News, Oct 18, 2006
Jarheads and Sex Slaves

Grass-fed beef and organic veggies in a jar: This culinary revolution doesn't come cheap. Local Korean Americans take issue with the Chronicle's recent sex-slave series.
- by John Birdsall and Kathleen Richards
- Tags: News, Three Stone Hearth, San Francisco Chronicle

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News, Oct 11, 2006
Mystery Threads

Founder of E-ville marketing company scores an enviable publicity coup; plus, food sellers still eschew spinach, leaving local Popeyes in the lurch.
- by John Birdsall and Michael Mechanic
- Tags: News, EDOC Laundry, Anil Pandey, spinach, Fame and Money (FAM)

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News, Feature, Sep 20, 2006
Waste, Glorious Waste

Tales of urban grubbing in the land of conspicuous consumption.
- by John Birdsall
- Tags: Feature, urban foraging, Good Samaritan House, The Grocery Outlets, Temescal Amity Works, Health

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While cities around the country are embracing mobile food vendors, Oakland still treats most of them as scofflaws.

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A month-long, taco-eating odyssey through Oakland's Fruitvale district.

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Stinky kimchi warrants its own fridge in some Korean households.

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People's Grocery gets a plot in the country, and some high-end clientele.

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Jack London Square's future lies in an ambitious-but-risky proposal whose failure could turn once-public waterfront into office space.

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Point-of-purchase cornhuskers irk the cobwatchers.

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Alison Negrin traded in a glamorous chef career to reform abysmal hospital chow. Good luck with that.

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Jerry Brown talked about the arts, and then the arts flourished. Does that mean he deserves the credit?

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Grass-fed beef and organic veggies in a jar: This culinary revolution doesn't come cheap. Local Korean Americans take issue with the Chronicle's recent sex-slave series.

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Founder of E-ville marketing company scores an enviable publicity coup; plus, food sellers still eschew spinach, leaving local Popeyes in the lurch.

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Tales of urban grubbing in the land of conspicuous consumption.

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